Mormonism Live: 133: The Fresh King Benjamin ( @thefreshkingbenjamin )
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Bill Reel
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🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 101 minutes
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DISCLAIMER: Our Guest, Comedian Ben Brown has a comedy that falls into pg13 including sexual references and crude language The Mormonism Live crew takes a much needed break for June 21st being joined by upcoming “Mormon” comedian Ben Brown known as “The Fresh King Benjamin”. Ben’s humor deeply connects to his own journey in and… Read More »Mormonism Live: 133: The Fresh King Benjamin ( @thefreshkingbenjamin )
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, are we live? |
| 0:01.0 | Good. Yeah, yeah. We're live. We just went live. Fresh king. So, yeah, the fresh king, Benjamin. Benjamin, you were just telling us about fundamentalist polygamy. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I would call that like real OG Mormonism, like hardcore. Not the fucking Mormonism that y'all wereall were doing yeah you said we were doing like the weak ass |
| 0:26.5 | Mormonism this will not stand sir this will not stand and we're talking about the fact that actually |
| 0:32.4 | you've gone home country roads and you are really behind enemy lines you're back in the compound I am deep yeah i'm i'm i'm actually i'm i'm vacationing with my with my kids and we went we came back to the compound to just kind of hang out with my family and kind of an odd turn of circumstances within the latter i've sort of like kind of reconciled with with my with my family and sort of a it's still kind of it's still kind of new and and fresh but |
| 0:54.9 | we're we're we're now to a point where we're where we're friendly again and um so I'm up I'm up |
| 1:00.2 | here kind of on like I was just showing you guys this is my this is my uh this is the background |
| 1:06.0 | this is my mom and my dad their wedding picture they got married in the Logan Temple, um, before they, |
| 1:14.5 | well, actually it was while they, they, like, joined the, the polygamist cult while they were |
| 1:18.7 | still members of the LDS church. And they got married in the Logan Temple. And then they got excommunicated. |
| 1:24.1 | Man, that's, that's, that's a life journey that us latter day saints generally don't |
| 1:31.7 | experience right like you yeah i kind of i have sort of the benefit of i've hopped through a |
| 1:36.9 | couple of different versions of of Mormonism so i'm a little bit of a cult connoisseur yeah what's it |
| 1:42.9 | what's definitely a cafeteria Mormon right i like to just kind of sample. Yeah, you started with the spicy dishes first. Right. I started hardcore and then I moved on to like the white bread version of Mormonism. So here's what I don't get. It's fresh King Benjamin. Do I call you fresh? Do I call you King? No, you can call you your highness yeah you can call me |
| 2:02.4 | Ben what's it like to be named after named after him you know |
| 2:07.4 | after Benjamin well I mean look at you're doing the the the comedy stuff now |
| 2:11.7 | that's what that's why right is that's why I went with fresh King Benjamin is that |
| 2:16.6 | I was named like i was named |
| 2:18.7 | after i was named after king benjamin i was told like that wasn't your temple name that no my temple |
| 2:24.3 | name was sam okay okay got you yeah my temple name was sam so everyone i tell that publicly because i just |
| 2:30.4 | want anyone to be able to resurrect me i don't care who it is like. Like man, woman, trans, I don't care. I just need, I'm just, I want to make sure that I get resurrected. So as many people as possible, I'm giving them the, the, the, the, the, the handshakes and my name so that I'm guaranteed to come back. Yeah. And we, we do have the handshakes, right? Like it is, there are the secret signs. |
| 2:54.0 | On the, on the, on the King Benjamin thing, right? Like the joke to me now is that I was, I was raised |
| 3:00.2 | with this worldview. Obviously, King Benjamin sort of idolized. And then, and then I left, but I'm, I'm still, like, I'm, when I started stand-up comedy, |
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